Quote of the Moment
"He said, 'Brother, if you don't mind, there is a cloud of glass coming at us, grab my hand, let's get the hell out of here.' He helped me stand up, and we ran for what seemed like forever without looking back." --A Muslim man tells how a Hasidic Jew helped him during the World Trade Center disaster, via this wired.com article

Stupid Link of the Moment
Just to get this over with, "Lucy" signed my guestbook and urged me to look up
the "Virtual Shit" site. This thing has been around for a long time.
It's the
Virtual Dog
Shit Creator. The joke is, it's even a bigger waste of time than it looks. You enter all these detailed parameters (weight, consistency, age, etc etc, a whole page worth), it tells you there's an error, you proceed anyway, you wait for 15 seconds, it 'calculates', then gives your picture of poo. The thing is, and I'm not sure if Lucy realized this, it's totally ignoring the parameters you select. Every time you reload the final page, it shows you one of several random pictures of poo. The huge array of parameters and the "working" timer page is just to get you to waste more time, and the random picture convinces you the controls are doing something.

Sort of funny, but more funny if you see what's going on.

from the T-shirt Archive: 20-22 of a Tedious Series
I'm getting sick of all these shirts (and actually, I think this
is the dullest section, so I want to hurry through it) so I'm
going to try three at a time.
Pink lizard, for some reason I think it might be associated with
New Mexico, but I'm not certain.
Riverdance. Probably a gift. Ehh.
Oy, this one. A relatively attractive tank top, I think from Epcot
at Disney World. But this is the thing... that little 'all nations'
patch was rather cheaply sewn in, and it scratches the heck
outta my nipple. I mean, really attacks it.